Fluids, Rheology and Mixing

Coordinator: Manuel Alves

Objectives

This research group investigates fluid flow of complex fluids, rheology and mixing in chemical reactors. The ultimate goal is the application of this fundamental research to the design of innovative chemical reactors from micro- to macro-scales.

Major research topics

Development of efficient and stable numerical methods with applications in computational rheology

Fundamental and applied research in mixing, coupling molecular scale phenomena with flow scales

Experimental and numerical investigation of mixing and reaction in micro/meso-sized reactors

Development of efficient composites based on a resilient scaffold material with embedded microfluidic patterns, filled with complex fluids

Investigation of inertial and elastic turbulence

TEAM

Adélio Manuel de Sousa Cavadas
Alexandre Miguel Prior Afonso
Célio Bruno Pinto Fernandes
Fernando Manuel Coutinho Tavares de Pinho
Francisco Galindo Rosales
Joana Maria Pereira Ferreira
João Mário Rodrigues Miranda
José Carlos Brito Lopes
José Daniel Pacheco Araújo

Laura Campo Deaño
Ludovic Ascenção
Madalena Maria Gomes de Queiroz Dias
Manuel António Moreira Alves
Margarida Sarmento Cunha Abrunhosa de Brito
Maria Nazaré Coelho Pinheiro
Mónica Cristina Ferreira da Silva Filgueiras
Ricardo Jorge Nogueira dos Santos